Specialist contractor Sheet Piling (UK) has installed 532 low\u2011carbon, temporary, sacrificial sheet piles in Ransome\u2019s Wharf, a riverside residential project in Battersea, southwest London.<\/p>\n
Each of the EMSteel Z\u2011Section GreenSteelPile, measuring between 10m and 11m long, was manufactured from recycled scrap using an electric arc furnace process.<\/p>\n
Developer London Square appointed SPUK to design, supply and install a complex sheet piling scheme to provide lateral earthworks support for a retained height of over 4m and facilitate construction of a permanent concrete basement.<\/p>\n
The project faced several challenges, including the site\u2019s location next to live highways and the presence of sensitive structures, such as the dock wall at Ransome\u2019s Dock, which is an Environment Agency asset.<\/p>\n
To reduce ground displacement and protect the sensitive assets, SPUK\u2019s in-house design consultancy team designed the sheet piles in accordance with strict movement criteria.<\/p>\n
Ground conditions also included a shallow groundwater table and dense Kempton Gravels, both of which posed difficulties in driving sheet piles to the required toe level.<\/p>\n
To mitigate groundwater ingress during excavation, SPUK designed the piles to achieve toe penetration into the underlying London Clay, forming an effective hydraulic cut\u2011off.<\/p>\n
The contractor also used Biguma clutch sealant \u2013 a hot-applied, bituminous joint sealant \u2013 to minimise seepage through the interlocks during excavation.<\/p>\n
SPUK said it used a \u201csilent and vibration\u2011free\u201d installation methodology with two Kowan ZU100 pile presses to minimise the risk of damage to adjacent sensitive structures.<\/p>\n
Further impact risks were reduced by using a sequential pre-augering process prior to installation to improve driveability through the dense Kempton Gravels.<\/p>\n
London Square is the developer and main contractor of the \u00a3222m Ransome Wharf project, according to data by analyst Glenigan. The scheme comprises the construction of 118 homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specialist contractor Sheet Piling (UK) has installed 532 low\u2011carbon, temporary, sacrificial sheet piles in Ransome\u2019s Wharf, a riverside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1423,8431,8432,8433,3558,27,8434,8435],"class_list":{"0":"post-18381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-battersea","9":"tag-emsteel","10":"tag-greensteelpile","11":"tag-kowan-zu100","12":"tag-l","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-sheet-piling","15":"tag-sheet-piling-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116441245497062992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}